ACM SIGIR Workshop on "Semantic Web" SWIR 2003 Toronto, Canada August 1, 2003 Report on Ying Ding#, Cornelis J. van Rijsbergen*, Iadh Ounis*, Joemon Jose* # University of Innsbruck, Austria *University of Glasgow, UK 1. Introduction This was the first workshop combining semantic web and information retrieval (IR). So far, the two communities were working independently, whereas they address more or less common issues. The main aim of the workshop was to bring together these two disparate communities. The workshop has been subsidized by the OntoWeb Consortium (www.ontoweb .ora, EU Thematic Network on Semantic Web). We have received 15 papers in total. We had experts representing both the semantic web and the IR fields as reviewers . All the submitted papers were thoroughly reviewed by at least 4 people representing both fields . Based on these reviews, we selected 7 very good papers dealing with various aspects of both information retrieval and semantic web. In addition, we scheduled two invited talks, spanning two important aspects of the semantic web. Dr Arturo Trujillo, of the Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd, has kindly chaired the workshop. The workshop attracted an audience ofmore than 30 people, who were encouraged to interact
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